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All I do is dream of you…

September 10, 2016 by Vickie Lester

Hello! This excerpt from my novel in progress is for my friend in Seattle, Scott Parker-Anderson. I’m in a helluva good mood, because after months of being forbidden from typing (separated my shoulder joint, long story, tell ya later) I am back at the keyboard. For those of you who have read It’s in His Kiss by Vickie Lester you will recognize Anne, that book’s fish-out-of-water Hollywood heroine in a much younger incarnation… *** And thus, Anne Brown and […]

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The Not So Secret Origin of my first novel, or, It’s in His Kiss by Vickie Lester

September 8, 2016 by Vickie Lester

That’s me in a grungy corner of a set sometime in the late eighties. You can tell by the garish knitwear and the helmet of curls… I’ve been rattling around this part of the world for a long time, probably longer than some of you (dear readers) have been alive. During that time I took some things as a matter of course, and other things just stuck in my tiny mind. Things I couldn’t openly talk about, some of it […]

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A Soul in Ten Million… another #lastory by Vickie Lester

June 20, 2016 by Vickie Lester

David Benton spent a not inconsiderable stretch of years flitting from one architectural roost to another in search of perfect aesthetic repose. His first was a one-bedroom studio designed by Rudolph Schindler on a busy street in Silver Lake. It was noisy, a little shabby, but it had a pedigree, and ancestral lineage even of the bricks and mortar sort meant a lot to him. (You’ll notice I make no comment on snobbery, this was a part of him one simply […]

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I wrote my first novel for the man who put me on his shoulders and showed me the world, happy Father’s Day

June 19, 2016 by Vickie Lester

That’s my father, he died many years ago on a business trip to London. And being my father’s daughter, this is the deal—this portrait of him is a link to my Hollywood novel, click and it’ll take you to Amazon. Hold onto your hats for a rare “non-fiction” moment, I wrote my father into the book. Why is it the deal? Because one of the things my dad taught me was to stick with a project and to push it […]

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Hollywood. The Dream Factory. A camera-ready world of fantasy fulfilled, artifice and bone-deep glamour — or a place of dark reality, depthless closets, failed love, false prophets and untimely death…

April 29, 2016 by Vickie Lester

toobeguiling #itsinhiskissbyvickielester –> “Clifford takin’ drugs! CLIFF? Do you know what my self-righteous son of blessed memory, my self-righteous son, he of the completely unaltered states, did to me because of my indulgences?” “No, sir,” Anne replied. “Don’t call me sir!” he fumed. Anne said nothing. She didn’t want to trigger another explosion. Starkey flicked the cigarette out the window then took Anne’s small, graceful hands in his large, bony paws. He was long-fingered, with octave-spanning hands like his […]

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“A Hollywood mystery, a page-turner, a love letter to everything great and horrible about TinselTown.”

April 25, 2016 by Vickie Lester

Anne’s mother emerged from the kitchen carrying two mismatched mugs. The one she handed to Anne was emblazoned with The Rolling Stones’ lips and lolling tongue logo; it reminded Anne of her mother’s infrequent drunken hints that she had once had a “thing” with one of the Stones back in the mists of time. So what Jill said next was surprising. “Friend of your father’s,” she said, nodding at the mug. “You owe him a very big thank you.” […]

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Behind the scenes in Hollywood with #itsinhiskissbyvickielester

April 24, 2016 by Vickie Lester

toobeguiling It’s amazing to wake to sunrise on roses, it really is a dream — but you know about dreams — they dissipate with coffee. I’m writing another novel, the one that comes after #itsinhiskissbyvickielester –> There’s a hardware store on Santa Monica Boulevard, just over the border from Beverly Hills in West Hollywood, which sells thick orange rubber gloves named after a famous French courtesan, Du Barry. It was like some aged copywriter on Madison Avenue still envisioned a […]

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“The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts…everything we do, we do for the young.” Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, who turns 90 today…

April 21, 2016 by Vickie Lester

We all have our own visions of Her Majesty, Keith Richards famously said of the prospect of knighthood at the hand of a Windsor, “Wouldn’t let that family near me with a sharp stick, let alone a sword.” I prefer to think of this particular Windsor as someone whose life has almost spanned a century, whose steadfast devotion, dry humor, and longevity are something to marvel. There’s a lovely fictional account of what might happen if Queen Elizabeth II […]

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Words to live by, especially if you’re a writer…

April 17, 2016 by Vickie Lester

There’s another marvelous memoir, from the amazing Diane Vreeland, you might be interested in reading. Her autobiography reads like a novel. This extract resonates with me because of its delicious contradiction: “Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.” DV Do I? But of course. And that’s the essence of It’s in His Kiss: truth, exaggerated…

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